Anne's Creative Threads » landscape http://annemaundrelldesigns.com/wordpress A journal of life in the tropics and the thoughts, processes and inspiration behind the art quilts I make. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:36:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 February and still raining http://annemaundrelldesigns.com/wordpress/2009/02/03/february-and-still-raining/ http://annemaundrelldesigns.com/wordpress/2009/02/03/february-and-still-raining/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:09:03 +0000 Anne http://annemaundrelldesigns.com/wordpress/?p=362 Well, we’re in to February now and it is still raining. We’ve lived in Brunei for fourteen years now and I don’t remember ever having such a wet season, we’ve even getting leeches and frogs on our patio on a regular basis. The frogs I don’t mind but leeches are not so nice.

I’ve been continuing to work on my rain forest art quilt design and it is slowly coming together. The difficulty is deciding how much extra detail to add, where to put it and when is enough.

 

In the photo above I’ve started adding some jungle floor foliage using raw edge applique, these fan palms are very common in the forest here.

fan palms and seedlings

fan palms and seedlings

fan palms spilling into the border.

fan palms spilling into the border.

These details are all attached using fusible web and I will secure them when it comes to the quilting stage. I plan to add a few more plants and some jungle creepers then I think I will be ready to put it all together and start the quilting.

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